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152 Minerali 
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158 Red Mask 

159 Life of an Actress 
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180 Cataract of the Ganges 

181 Robber of the Rhine 

182 School of Reform 

183 Wandering Boys 

184 Mazeppa 
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186 The Victims 

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188 Brigand . 
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190 Ambrose Gwinetl 

191 Raymond and Agnes 

192 Gambler's Fate 
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194 tlassanieUo 
95 Sixteen String Jack 

196 Youthful (4ueen 

197 Skeleton Witness 

198 Innkeeper of Abbeville 

199 Miller and his Men 

200 Aladdin 
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202 Undine 

203 Jessie Brown 
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207 Viola 
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210 Victorine 

211 Wizard of the Wave 

212 Castle Spectre 
218 Horse-shoe Robinson 

214 Armand, Mrs Mowatt 

215 Fashion, Mrs Mowatt 
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218 Uncle Tom's Cabin 
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220 Veteran 

221 Miller of New Jersey 

222 Dark Hour before Dawn 

223 Midsum'r Night's Dream 
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226 Ossawattomie Brown 
287 Pope of Rome 

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229 Pauvrette 

230 Man in the Iron Mask 
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247 Willow Copse 

248 People's Lawyer 
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250 Lucretia Borgia 

251 Surgeon of Paris 

252 Patrician's Daughter 

253 Shoemaker of Toulouse 

254 Momemous Question 

255 Love and Loyalty 

256 Robber's Wife 
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257 Dumb Girl of Genoa 

258 Wreck Ashore 

259 Clari 

260 Rural Felicity 

261 Wallace 

262 Madelaine 
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Grist to the Mill 
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266 Annie Blake 

267 Steward 

268 Cap'aiu Kyd 
269Nickof the Woods 

270 Marble Heart 

271 Second Love 

272 Dream at Sea 
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273 Breach of Promise 

274 Review 

275 Lady of the Lake 

276 Still Water Runs Deep 

277 The Scholar . 

278 Helping Hands 

279 Faust and Marguerite 
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VOL. XXXVI. 

281 Belle's Stratagem 

282 Old and Young 

283 Raffaella 
J84 Ruth Oakley 
'285 P.ritish Slave 

286 A Life's Ransom 

287 Giralda 

288 Time Tries All 
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289 Ella Rosenburg 

290 Warlock of the Glen 

291 Zelina 

292 Beatrice 

293 Neighbor Jackwood 

294 Wonder 

295 Robert Emmet 

296 Green Bushes 
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297 Flowers of the Forest 

298 A Bachelor of Arts 

299 The Midnight BanquetJ 1 

300 Husband of an Hour>^ I 

301 Love' s Labor Lost 1 1 

302 Nai ueen i I 

303 Caprice' ' ' 

304 Cradle of Liberty 
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305 The Lost Ship 

306 Country Squire 

307 Fraud and its Victims 

308 Putnam 
i09 King and Deserter 
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311 A Hard Struggle 

312 Gwinnette Vaughan 
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313 The Love Knot [ Judg( 

314 Lavater, or Not a Ba< 

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ACT I. 



SCENE i. — A plain chamber in first groove ; carpd down. 

Enter Duke St. Lorme, k. h, 

Duhe. Deuce take the valets of the present day— they are a 
compound mixture of impertinence and laziness ; the toilette is a 
perfect bore with their excessive awkwardness. Thank fortune I am 
again in Paris ; — it will enable me to procure servants to my taste. 
But what caa detain Pierre ? the rascal has caught the infection of 
idleness from my other domestics. 

Einter Piekbe, l. h. 

By the Saints, Pierre, for the last half hour I have been fancying 
that you was either dead or left the country. 

Pierre. Why so, my Lord ? 

Duke. The excessive length of time you have taken to ascertain 
the information I required. 

Pierre. Your lordship must consider the difficulty I had to accom- 
plish — 

Duke. Well, well, you have seen Sir Patrick, and announced my 
arrival in Paris — and my nephew — 

Pierre. Your commands have been strictly obeyed. 

Dulte. Well, sir, and what have you learned concerning the O'Connor 
family ? 

Pierre. Sir Patrick received me with great kindness, or — to use your 
lordship's words — overdone the thing, considerable. 

Duke. Exactly ; full of vulgar city politeness. He was a merchant 
in Ireland, and King George of England knighted him, through some 
political service that he rendered the Government. But he is wealthy, 
Pierre, and it is necessary that Eugene marries his daughter. 

Pierre. The family is very well lo marry into, my lord, but would 
never do for your lordship to live with. 

Duke. You're right, Pierre ; there is no washing colored persons 
white. But tell me of the other branches of the family. 

Pierre. Lady O'lsTeil— Sir Patrick's sister — is rather a crusty old 
lady ; she appears to be Ihe commander, or chief of the establishment. 



4 KATTY O SIIEAL. 

Duke. I perceive : a small remnant of nobility, falling into decay. 

Pierre. The eldest daughter, Ma'amselle Cordelia, very much resem- 
bles her aunt, and judging from the little I saw of her, is her favorite. 

Duke. A slight touch of the old maid about her, eh, Pierre ? [Laugh- 
ing.'] Ha-ha-ha ! 

Pierre. Ma'amselle Florence,the youngest daughter, is a very amiable 
and beautiful young lady. 

Duke. Pierre, you deserve credit for the description you give of the 
O'Connor's ; it is precisely the same account I was favored with at 
Brussels, by Count de Henri. But order my carriage, immediately ; 
I shall call for Eugene at his hotel. 

Pierre. Directly, your lordship. [Bows, and exits, l. 

Duke. [Rubbing his knees.] "What can I possibly do amongst these 
ladies, with this confounded rheumatism ? it is a most grievous enemy 
to gallantry and address. The description of Florence has absolutely 
inspired me. [Lively.] Young, amiable and beautiful. Egad ! I shall 
have the fidgetfs until I behold the little Venus ! Beauty is the devil 
amongst people of quality. Bright woman's eye ever beguiles, and 
sets me capering ! [Dancing.] Delicious anticipations till my soul with 
rapturous ecstacy 1 Egad ! I'll speed to Paradise ! [Exit, l. 1 e. 

SCENE II. — A handsome apartment in Sir Patrick' s house, c. D. used, and 
hacked hy garden. Set door k. 2d e. Sd doer l. 'Id e. Tables n. and L., 
vAih hooks, flowers, 8;c. Chairs u. and L. 

Enter Floeexce, e. 1 e. 

Florence. The Duke St. Lorme and his nephew, the count, have 
arrived. I declare, their presence has sadly affected my nerves. My 
secret marriage with Charles maiies me restlet^s and uneasy, for fear 
of discovery. Well, well — but a few short days, and Cordelia will 
be the Countess St. Lorme, little thinking that I, her younger sister, 
has stolon a march in the ranks of matrimony before her. [Katty 
sings without, c] Ah ! here comes the madcap, Katty O'Sheal ! 

Enter Katty, with a bunch of flxxwers, c. b. , and singing. 

Katty. Ah, Florence, darlint, is it here ye are, all alone by your- 
self, this bright sunshiny morning ? 
Florence. Yes, Katty, moralizing on the past and the future. 
Kaity. Bother your thinking. [Sings.] 

" Sure, we'll kiss and drink, and never think ; 
For it's all the same to-morrow, oh !" 
Florence. Be quiet, you scrapegrace, do. "Where did you gather 
those flowers? 

Katty. Over the hills, and far away. [Sings.] 
" Where the trout and the salmon play at backgammon. 
But if you attempt to touch them, sure they'll all swim away." 
Florence. Come, come, be serious, you wild creature, do. 
Kaity. Is it serious you would have me ? Me, Katty O'Sheal, whoso 
ancestors were the followers of the family before the world began ! 



KATTY O RHEAL. 6 

Florence. Before tlie world began! [Laughing.'] Ha ha-ha. 
Kaity. Faith, ye inay laugh : but it s well known that my rela- 
tions were the fuilowers of. your faniily time out of mh)d ; and, be- 
dad, that's before the deluge — and if nobody knows it, why, who's to 
find it out ? 

Florence. Well, never mind your ancestors, Katty ; you know that 
I am in a very perplexing situation, through the fear of my clan- 
de.-.line union with Captain O'Lynn being discovered. 

Katty. Sure, don't ye bespoilin' your blushes wid the blarney. Faith, 
I'd like to see the girl who wouldn't be a,fther jumping from a three- 
story window to stand in your two shoes, wid your sparkling eyes 
and your pouting lips, that rival the scarlet flowers I have here, and 
whispering to yourself, " Och, where the divil are you. Captain 
O'Lynn, to fcip the dew from the two lips, and swallow the honey 
that's all your own ?" 

Florence. Don't talk such nonsense, Katty. 

Katty. Faiih, it's the honest truth I'm speaking. Sure, if I was your 
husband, I'd be the death of you. 

Fioie.ice. Be the death of me, Katty? Ha-ha-ha ! 

Katty. That is, you know, to die the Irish way — " live a little 
longer." 

Florence. Pray, stop your jesting, or I shall be angry. 

Kady. Oh, you couldn't if you were to try ever so much. Sure, 
it's your sister Cordelia that's so well stocked with the article. 

Floience. How can you run on with such nonsense ? One would 
think yon was born a simpleton ! 

Kaity. Bedad, I wasn't, then ; for I was born first a baby in long- 
clothes. 

Florence. [Laughing.'] Well, you certainly are a great creature, 
Katty. 

KaUy Sure, I'm thinking that I'd be twice the child that I am, if 
your father hadn't transplanted me from my own native isle, to be 
smothered with the likes of maccaroni and garlic. Faith, I long to 
see the old cronies aizain, and listen to them singing their good old 
Iiish ditties : " A sailor courted a farmer's daughter that lived con- 
vauient to the Isle of Man." 

Florence. I see there is no reason in you this morning, so I'll leave 
you to indulge in your wild flights of fancy. [Going r. h. 

Kat.y. Oh, don't you be after going yet. Sure, I've a small trifle 
of somethinii to tell you. 

Florence. Indeed ! — has Captain O'Lynn returned from Marseilles ? 

Katty. Faitii he has that same, and he'll be here, in a moment, to 
tell you so. [Singing.] 

" For his waist is taper, none could be complater ; 
And his bieath as sweet as the flowers in May." 

Florence. How can you be so tantalizing, Katty. Are you jesting, 
or have you s'^en Captain O'Lynn ? 

Captain O'Lynn. [Witlwut-^ c. d.] Never mind, don't trouble your- 
mii Monsieur. 



6 EATTT O SHEAL. 

Katty. Do you hear that ? Now ask me if it's joking I am. 
Enier Captain O'Lya'n, c. d. 

Captain 0' Lynn. My dear Florence ! [Kissing her hands.'] 

KaUy. [Seeing him kiss Flokekce's hwids.] Sure, you needn't mind 
me. 

O'Lynn. Oh no ! Katty ; you are our confidential friend, and the 
faithlui follower of the family. You delivered my note to Flo- 
rence ? 

Katty. Bedad, I forgot ail about it. As you are here yourself, 
now, you cau do that same. In Ireland, when a gentleman writes a 
letter to a young girl, he thinks the safest way is, to turn postmaster, 
aud deliver it hiuiseif. [Takes note from her hosom, and gives it to Captain.] 

0' Lynn. [:Smiling.] You are leally a droll creature. 

Katty. Considering my youth ! But I am too much accustomed to 
polite society to spoil sport, so smother the jewel of your sowl wid 
ki.>ses. [He kisi^es j^lorence.] Och, strawberries and cream ! butter- 
milk and good uuld Irish whiskey ! [Exits l. I e. 

Lynn. My dearest Floierce, this note was to inform you that I 
had returned to Baris, but was compelled to see the Colonel before I 
could visit you. 

Eiore/ice. And dear Charles, now that you have arrived, I am de- 
termined that our marriage shall be revealed this dwy. 

O'Lynn. Nay, nay, Florence, have patience ; do not let us disturb the 
joy of your sister's marriage with the tumult this matter may occa- 
sion. Count tit. Lorme is my friend, and his uncle, the Duke, pro- 
cured me my commission, and I can rely upon ther joint influeace 
with your father and aunt, after Cordelia's nuptials are celebrated. 

Enter Sir Patrick, l. n., 1 e. 

Sir Patrick. Hey day ! who have we got here ? 

Florence. [Co7ifii£ed.] Captain O'Lynn, sir. [Exit Fljrence, c. d. 

Sir Patrick. Ah, Captain— what ! — always getting my foolish girl 
in a corner. Well, well, let me once see her eldest sister married 
to Count St. Lorme, I will soon provide a husband for Florence. 

O'Lynn. Let it be one of my recommending. Sir Patrick. I hatter 
myself that I could point out the person that would not be alto- 
gether disagreeable to Mam'selle Florence. 

Sir Patrick. What ? — yourself. Eh, Captain ? 

Lynn. If I could but obtain your consent ! 

Sir Patrick. You marry Florence ! No, no, that will never do. 
I esteem both you and your family. A soldier should never think 
of marriage, imless he has the chink — money — Captain Lynn. 

O'Lynn. It is true my fortune is hut moderate ; — still suthcient to 
keep above want ; and I hope, by diligence and perseverance, to in- 
crease it. 

Sir Patrick. My good sir, add to your fortune before you think of 
a wife. I will do anything to serve you upon the footing of friend- 
ship, but^ — « 



KAITE O SHEAL. 7 

O'Lynn. Be assured, sir, there is no iustance that I should rate 
your friendship so highly. 

Sir Patrick. Pshaw ! that's another affair altogether. You know 
where money or interest is concerned, friendship is quite out of the 
question. 

O'Lynn. But would you not sacrifice a trifle to secure your 
daughter's happiness ? 

Sir FcUrick. Confound it i do you want to persuade me that the 
girl is in love with you ! 

O'Lynn. No, Sir Patrick ; I cannot answer for Florence, but I am 
sure that the chief happiness or misery of my life depends entirely 
upon her. 

Sir Fatrick. Eidiculous ! — a soldier should think of nothing but 
glory and promotion. The ladder of fame shovild be your motto. 
Come, come, now promise me that I shall hear no more of this. 

0' Lyvin. [Hesiiaiing .'] I fear, sir, I should not be able to keep my 
word with you. 

Sir Patrick. The devil ! you would not offer to marry her without 
my consent? 

0'i<t/wi. Sir ! — I — I beg, sir — pray excuse me on the subject at 
present ! 

Sir Patrick. Then promise me that you will carry this matter no 
further ! 

O'Lynn. That I promise you, Sir Patrick. 

Sir Patrick. Enough. I shall depend on your words. Here comes 
my sister, and our honored guests. 

Enter Duke St. Lokme, Lady O'Niel, Count St. Lorme, Cordelia, 
and Florence, c. The Ladies each carry a bouquet. 

Duke. Great improvement indeed, your ladyship. I must con- 
fess you have wonderful taste. 

Sir Patrick. My sister has been showing you the various altera- 
tions that I have made in the old mansion. I can assure your lord- 
ship that I spared neither pains or expense. In fact it is quite 
another place compared to what it was when I first purchased it. I 
made a green house out of the old shed ; turned the wine brewery 
into a pinery, and the high octagon summer house you saw, is raised 
on a Portland block, given me by the steward of the Earl of Pem- 
brook ; you perceive it commands a view of the whole road to Paris. 

Duke. [r. c] It appeared to me, Sir Patrick, like some fairy castle 
in the air — a kind of depot for balloons to start from, when the 
wiud is fair for excursions across the channel to England, or a coast- 
ing voyiige to the Rhine. 

Lady 0' Neil. [l. c] My brother is a little comical in his ideas, 
my lord, but you'll excuse him. I have a gothic grotto fitted np in 
my own taste, wliere nature and art are combined, that I must 
show you. 

Duke. [Botvitig.'] I have every moment a fresh opportunity of ad- 
miring the elegance of L:idy O'Neil ; — the very flower of delicacy 
and cream of politeucsii. 



8 KATTT o'snEAL. 

Lady 0' Neil [Curtseying -1 Oh ! my lord ! 

Sir Patrick. How do you like the walks, my lord ? 

Duke. Excellent ! they form a perfect maze, and wind like a true 
lover's knot. [To Florence.] Your bouquet is composed of very 
choice and beautiful flowers^ Mademoiselle. 

Florence. Yes, they are very mihxellaneous, your lordship. Will 
you do me the honor of accepting them. [Presenting bouquet. 

Duke. With pleasure. 1 11 wear it next my heart, Mademoiselle. 
[Aside.'] I have positively made an impression on the young creature. 

CorcTelia. Will your lordship permit me to present you with this 
rose ? [Presenting it. 

Duke. The truest emblem of yourself, Mademoiselle— all sweetness 
and poignancy. [Aside.] A little jealous, by the gods. 

[Q'osses to R. and back c. 

Sir Patrick. Now, my lord, "we have time sufficient before dinner 
to stroll though the orchard, where I will show you some very fine 
prospects. 

Ladg 0' Neil. But brother, perhaps you will fatigue his lordship 
with over walking; ! 

Duke. Not at all, madam ; let us at once proceed to the Garden of 
Eden, in the regions of perpetual spring and youth. [Leering at the 
ladies.] I am ever gay when surrounded by a bevy of beauties. 

Lady 0' Neil. [Aside.] Here is real nobility. 

Duke. [^Po Florence and Cordelia.] Ladies will you do me the 
honor. [Offaing his arm, which they take.] Sir Patrick and Lady O'Neil 
will lead the way ; — we young people will follow. 

Sir Patrick. Certainly, your lordship i Come, sister, [taking her 
arm,] let's hob and bob together. [Crossing '&., 1 e. 

Lady O'Neil. [Aside to him.] Don't be so vulgar, brother ! 
[Both exit, r. h., followed by Duke St. Lorme, in ecsiacy, with Elorencb 
and Cordelia. 

Katty enters c. , and remains back. 

Cou'/vt St. Lorme. At length we are alone. I know that you are my 
friend, and will rejoice to serve me. 

O'Lynn. Our friendship has never been doubted ! 

Count St. Lorme. This treaty of marriage between Mademoiselle Cor- 
delia and myself, will come to nothing. 

O'Lynn. You amaze me ! But what's to prevent it ? 

Cau7it St. Lorme. Well, plainly speaking, I do not like her. 

Katty. [Aside.] Bedad, there's plenty like you, exactly. 

0' Lynn. I never supposed that you were extremely devoted to her, 
from inclination, but thought you considered it as an affair of con- 
venience, rather than true affection. 

Count St. Lorme. Very true. You are aware that I was to receive 
the round sum of eighty thousand pounds with Cordelia. I looked 
upon love — serious, sober love— as a chimera, and marriage as a 
thing of course ; but I who, until lately, was so great an inhdel in 
love, am now one of its since rest votaries. In a word, my defection 
from Cordelia proceeds from tlic violence of my aitdchmcnt to another 



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Katty, [Aside.'] Did you ever hear the likes of that ? 

0' Lynn. Rather an awkward atfair, count. Sir Patrick is an ohst.i- 
nate old fellow, and Cordelia is Lady O'Neil's favorite neice. There 
•will be fine work if yon retract from, your engagement. But, tell 
me, who is your charmer ? 

Count St. Lorme. Her sister — the lovely and angelic Florence ! 

Katty. [Aside.] Och, murther, in Frinch ! 

O'Lynn. [Starting.] Florence ! — the devil ! My dear count, you 
really must not think of such a thing. 

Katty. [Aside.] That's my opinion of the matther. 

Count St. Lorme. Not think of it ! I can think of nothing else. 
"Was it possible for me to be indulged in a daily intercouise with two 
such objects as Florence and her sister, and not find my heart led by 
insensible attraction towards her ? 

Kaity. [Aside.] That's the honest truth he's speaking. 

(hunt St. Lorme. You seem confounded. Why do you not an- 
swer ? 

Kaiiy. [Aside^ It's a delicate question you're asking him, any- 
how, 

O'Lynn. Indeed, Count, this event gives me infinite concern. I 
foresee that it will produce the worst consequences. Let me per- 
suade you to drop these thoughts in time. 

Count St. Lorme. Never, — never ! 

Katty. [Aside.] Faith, I think you'd better, then. 

O'Lynn. You have gone too far to recede. A negotiation so near 
concluded cannot be broken off with any grace. The preliminaries 
finally settled between the Duke St. Lorme and Sir Patrick, and 
Cordelia, ready herself to receive you as her husband. 

Katty. [Aside,] And she's been waiting too long for a husband to 
be letting you off aisy. 

Count St. Lorme. I grant you the banns have been published, but 
persons change their minds occasionally after entering the church. 

O'Lynn. You think too lightly of this affair : — to carry your ad- 
dresses so far and then desert her, and for her younger sister, too, — 
it will be such an affront to the family they can never countenance it. 

Katty. [Aside.] The old lady will give you scratch, for the sake of 
her prodigy. 

Count St. Lorme. I don't think so. Transferring my passion from 
one sister to the other is not like bestowing my affections out of the 
family. 

Katty. [Aside.] You're a beauty, anyhow. 

O'Lynn. Count, take my advice, and think better of it. 

Coimi St. Lorme. I have thought already. Now, candidly, you 
cannot blame me. Is there any comparison between them ? 

Katiy. [Aside.] Yes ; one's like a beautiful canary-bird, and the 
other is like the ilegant bird they call the crow, wid plenty of caw ! 
ca,w ! caw ! [Imitates a croiv.] 

O'Lyrm You should have thought of this before. 

Count St. Lorme. [Looking oW R. H.J Oh 1 I see her in the garden , 
I'll go to her immediately. [Going a. 1 E. 



10 KATTY O SDEAi. 

O'Lynn [Detaining him,] You are too precipitate ! — consider what 
you are doing ! 

Count St. LoTTYie. I would not lose the opportunity for the universe. 
[Breaking from him.'\ Don't interrupt us, Ca^) tain O'Lynn, or I shall 
never forgive you. [Rum off r. 1 e. 

Katty. Och, hone ! What will we do ? 

O'Lynn. I shall go mad. [Walking about, greatly excited. 1 This is the 
most unfortunate occurrence that could possibly happen. 

Katty. [Following him.] It's bothered I am, entirely. 

O'Lynn. [Not noticing her.] In love with my wife. D n it, I 

can't bear this ! 

Katty. [Following Captain.] I don't know what to do wid the likes 
of it. 

0' Lynn. I am the most unfortunate fellow in the world. 

Katty. Sure, you have the devil's own luck, and your own, too. 

O'Lynn. Acquaint me with his passion for her ! — it is beyond for- 
bearance. 

ICatty. To make love to your own lawful wife, the big blackguard. 

O'Lynn. [Turns and meets Katty.] Wbat are you talking about ? 

Katty. Sure, I'm not talking at all, at all. I'm just thinking what 
a fix yer in. 

O'Lynn. Fix ! D n me, I'm mad ! Call fortune inconstant ! 

Katty. Bedad, she's constant enough to you, anyhow, and kicks 
you into all the gutters she can find. 

O'Lynn. [Going l.] No matter ! the die is cast ! I'll go and in- 
form Sir Patrick at once. 

Katty. [Detaining him.] And have you're darSing Florence's fortune 
cut off to a miserable shilling. Sure, that would never do, Captain. 

O'Lynn. I can never submit to Count St. Lorme making love to 
Florence ! S'death, I should break out and claim my right, were 
it the king himself. 

Katty. Whisht! Don't you know that I'm the poor but faithful 
follower of the family, and now, that you're hitched to my young 
lady and the old family carriage, sure, it's meself that will do any- 
thing to serve you. Don't you know that I consider you one of the 
boys ? 

O'Lynn. Oh ! nonsense ! Pray what can you do, Katty ? 

Katty. More than you'll give me credit for, I'll go bail ; but you 
trust to me for a screamer, and I'll have Lady O'Neil, together wid 
her pet, Cordelia, and your father-in-law. Sir Patrick — who don't 
know it — bedad, I'll have them all at loggerheads. 

O'Lynn. But that will be of no use to me ! 

Katty. Och, you be aisy, and you'll see what a storm I'll have here 
in less than no time wid the ancient O'Connors and the inspiring 
St. Lormes. Faith, I'll have them all in a mighty big furs te ration, 
like a cow's tail in fly- time. 

O'Lynn. Well, but I can't see the good of such mis^chief. 

Katty. Mischief! You'll be calling it ilegant amutemeut, when I 
accomplish my in ten Lions. 

0' Lynn. Curse rue, if I cxix coiiipichead your lueaniag. 



KATTV o'siinAL 11 

Katty. Whist ! liero comes Lhc old duke. You be off, and you'll 
see how I'll snare the ould bird. 

0' Lynn. Well, fire away, Kaity, I 11 tru^t to luck. 

[Exit Captain O'Lynx, l. h. 
Katty. [Sings.] " Trust to luck." 

Enter Duke St. Loeme, k. , 1 e. 

DuTce. Ah ! what have "we here ! — a sougstress from the Emerald 
Isle. Good morning, my dear ! 

Katty. [Curtseying.'] Good morning to your honor. Sure, it's mighty 
glad to see you, so I am ! 

Duke. [Aside.] This must be the follower of the family, that I have 
heard so much about. [Aloud] You are attached to the O'Connors, 
I presume. 

Katty. Faith you may say that wid all the truth in life, for, accord- 
ing to the ancient and modern history, there's a long account to 
settle betwane us. 

Duke. [Aside.] Egad ! she's very pretty. [Ahud.] So, to keep tip 
the ancieut custom, you have left the land of your birth to follow 
your patron to sunny France 

Katty. Y'es, your honor ; sure, I left the land of the potatoes for 
the land of the frogs. 

Duke. Frogs, when properly dressed, are a very delicious dish, I 
can assure you, my little queen. 

Katty. Faith, I know that. Sure, all the soup in the country seems 
swimming alive with the lively little fellows. 

Duke. [Aside.] Her simplicity charms me. [Aloud.] But you are 
aware that France is famed for her great skill and taste in cookery. 

Katty. Bedad, I know that, for our cook makes lots of good things 
out of nothing. She roasts a great lump of butter as we would in 
Ireland a sucking-pig, and then makes ilegant broth out of the 
shavings. 

Duke. [Laughing.] Ha-ha-ha ! I perceive the arts and sciences in 
our French kitchens astonish you. They don't serve up such savory 
morsels in your country ! 

Katty. Faith, they don't, and if they did, they couldn't be afther 
getting anybody to ate thim. 

Duke. Why not, my dear ? 

Katty. Oh, the Pats are pretty good at the vegetable productions, 
but yoLi wouldn't be after getting thim to swallow any thing that has 
the appearance of unhealthy hedgehogs. 

Duke. [Laughing.] Ha-ha-ha ! unhealthy hedgehogs. [Aside.] The 
girl is positively a connoisseur in droll sayings. [Aloud.] But, tell me, 
my little sprig of the shamrock, have you many colleges for edu- 
cation in the part of Ireland that you came from ? 

Katty. Colleges? Bedad, the country's full of thim. There's the 
'* Amitoress," '• Discriptive," and " Non-Discviptive," all full of 
beautiful music and poetry. 

DuJce. By my faith you have studied the cla.ssics. 

Katty. Och, sure, I went to school to Judy ilcCsee. She was a 



12 KATTY O'SHEAL. 

whole history in herself. She wa? distantly-related to Tim Moore 
and Will Shakespeare. Och, Avouldn't I like to see her equal among 
the Pol-i-vou-.-; ? 

Duke. [Aside.'] The girl is a complete composttion of sayings — 
a rustic heauty. [Aloud.l Really, my dear, you interest me with 
your knowledge of the ancients ; — your instructress must have been 
a wonderful woman ! 

. Katty. She was that same ! But your honor seemed fond of sing- 
ing, — are you also fond of dancing ? 

Duke. My sweet little flower of the west, I shall idolize every- 
thing that you do. 

Katty. Then, hurroo ! for Barney O'Brallagan ! 

Music. — She dances jig. 2he Duke dances, and endeavors to keep pace iviih 
her; — during which Sir Patrick, Lady O'Neil, Cordelia, Count St. 
LoRME and Florence enter door c. Captain O'Lynn enters l., 1 e. 
All look on with astonishment. The Duke continues to dance until exhaust- 
ed. — Falls c. Katty dances around him until drop down. 



ACT II. 

SCEISTE I. — Same as last scene of Act I. 

Fnter Sir Patrick and Count St. Lormb, l., 1 b. 

Sir Patrick. What the deuce is the meaning of all this ? I don u 
understand a single syllable ! 

Count St. Lorme. [l.] It will be absolutely impossible for me to fulfil 
my engagement in regard to M'lle Cordelia. 

Sir Patrick. How, sir ! Do you mean to put an affront upon the 
O'Connors ? 

Count St. Lorme. No, Sir Patrick ; I neither intend to offend nor for- 
sake your family. It is my most earnest desire to be connected in an 
alliance of the nearest and tenderest ties. 

Sir Patrick. Why, you have this moment declared it was impos- 
sible for you to marry my daughter ! 

Count St. Lorme. True ; but you have another daughter, sir ! 

Sir Patrick. I flatter myself that I have ; but what has that to 
do with it? 

Co^mt St. Lorme. In a word. Sir Patrick, M'lle Florence has obtain- 
ed the most absolute dominion over my heart. 

Sir Patrick. The devil she has ! Why, what do you take me for, 
Count St. Lorme ! 

Count St. Lorme. A gentleman, Sir Patrick, of the strictest honor 
and integrity. 

Sir Patrick. And then, do you suppose that I will suffer you, or 
any man in the world, to come into my house, like the Grand Turk, 
andthrov/^ his handkerchief, first at one of my daughters, and then 



KATTY O'SHEAL. 13 

the other ! Zounds ! sir, this is France, or the Grand Nation, as 
you Frenchmen term it, and not Turkey. You must imagine jouv- 
self in Constantinople — not the suburbs of Paris ! 

Count St. Lorme. A moment's patience, sir. Believe me, nothinpf 
but the excess of my passion for M'lle Florence should have indnced 
me to take the step that had the least app^^^arance of disrespect 
towards your family ; and even now, I am desirous to atone for my 
transgression by making the most adequate compensation I 

Sir Patiick. Absurd, sir ! What compensation can you possibly make ? 

Count St. Lorme. Consent to cancel my engagement with M'lle 
Cordelia, and I will marry M'lle Florence with half the dowry 
agreed upon — forty thousand pounds instead of eighty. 

Sir Fatrick. Well, truly, there is some consideration in that. But 
then, my sister. Lady O'Neil, sir, must be consulted. 

Count Si. Lorme. That I have already obtained. 

Sir Patrick. The deuce, you have ! 

Count St. Loi-me. Yes, sir ; I hinted my sentiments to her ladyship, 
and I have reason to believe that she is perfectly agreeable to my 
wishes ! 

Sir Patrick. Well, wonders will never cease. Egad ! she is the last 
person that I should have thought would listen to anything" of the 
kind. 

Count St. Lorme. Then you do not object, Sir Patrick ? 

Sir Patrick. Oh, no ! If my sister sanctions it, there is an end of 
the matter. If she is content with the slight offered to her favorite 
niece, I have nothing to say against it, considering the liberal com- 
pensation you grant. 

Count St. Lorme. Thank§ ! thanks! Sir Patrick, you have made 
me happy. I'll hasten to her ladyship and [crosses e.] acquaint 
her with your approval. [Exit Count St. Lorme, k., 1. e. 

Sir Patrick. Well, really, I must confess, the French nobility ha^ve 
a most singular way of doing things. Count St. Lorme first pro- 
poses for my eldest daughter ; — comes post-haste from Brussels, and 
signs the marriage contract, and in less than twenty-four hours after 
solicits the hand of my youngest daughter at half the original 
dowry agreed upon. Then the old Duke fancies himself a young 
boy ; flirts with the ladies ; enters my mansion with all the pomp 
and stiffness of an emperor, and in two hours afterwards I find him 
dancing a jig with Katty O'Sheal ! 

Katty. Is it here ye are, Sir Patrick ? Faith, its mighty glad I 
am that I've found you. 

^r Patrick. Well ; and now that you have found me, perhaps you 
will be kind enough to inform me how you prevailed upon the Duke 
St. Lorme to dance-an Irish jig, and also the nature of his conversa- 
tion with you in the garden. 

Katty. You don't see how the cat jumps. 

Sir Patrick. Come, come ! Miss Katty, none of your tantalizing 
evasions. I simply ask you a reasonable question. 

Katty. Do you mean to say that you don't know what's going on 
in the house ? 



14 EATTY o'sii::al. 

Sir P attack. Well, yes— that is — not exactly —there is some slight 
change in the original agreement with the St. Lorme's. 

Katiy. Slight change ? Bedad, I'm thinking tliere's a mighty big 
one, and it's yerself that'll get none the best of the bargain. 

Sir Patrick. Oh, I see ! You are, then, acquainted with the Count's 
inconstancy. 

Katiy. Inconstancy ? Such transmogrification might be called an 
every-day occurrence in high life, or, as the French say, " Fashion- 
able convanience," that Cupid has nothing at all to do wid. 

Sir Patrick. You are right, Katty ; matrimonial affairs, nine times 
.out of ten, with the nobility, may very justly be termed mercenary 
speculations. 

Katty. Faith, that's true for you. Now, then, I'll tell you some- 
thing which I consider my duty to acquaint you wid. 

Sir Patrick. Well, Katty, if its any consequence, be brief and tell 
ma. 

Katty. \_Aside.'] Kow, then, I'll tell him a thumper. [Aloud.'] If a 
gentleman was on the point of losing two hundred thousand pounds, 
v/onldn't he consider it of consequence ? 

Sir Patrick. Well, really, I should think so. Two hundred thou- 
sand pounds ! Zounds ! it would make a man commit suicide ! 

Katty. Och, darlint, I'd be very sorry to see you, do the likes of 
that. 

Sir Patrick. [Surprised.'] Me ! What the deuce do you mean ? 
Katty. You know the world gives you credit for having a sister, 
and. bedd, that sister's a woman. 

Sir Patrick. Well, it would be devilish strange if she was a man. 
Come, come, Miss Katty, none of your blarney ; I'm not in the 
humor for joking. 

Katiy. Sure, if I am not to be listened to, I'll hold my tongue be- 
twane my teeth, and never speak a word ; but when the joke's found 
out, you'll be laughing the wrong side of yer mouth, or my name 
is not Katty O'Sheal. 

Sir Patrick. Ah ! then, its something of importance. Explain. 
Katty. [Whispering.] The Duke St. Lorme is paying his delicate 
attentions to Lady O'Neil ! 

Sir Patrick. Nonsense ! I don't believe that. 

Katty. Faith, I do, and what's more, sure, the old duke seems to 
be quite pleased wid that same. 

Sir Patrick. [Laughing.] Ha-ha-ha ! you misconstrue the thing, Kat- 
ty. The French are celebrated for their politeness. 

Katiy. Oh, it's very polite, isn't it, to be smothering one anoidler 
wid kisses, in the summer-house ? 

Sir Patrick. You don't niean to tell me that the Duke was kissing 
my sister ? 

Katty. Faith I do, and what's more, sure she was giving them back 
to the old fellow, into the bargain. Bedad, it was ilegant amuse- 
ment for the two. 

Sir Patrick. It appears very unrea.souable to me. You must be 
mistaken, Katty ! 



KATTY O'SHEAL. 15 

Katty. Divil a mistake, at all, at all. Didn't I see it wid my own 
two eyes? and, to satisfy my natural feminine curiosity, I slipped 
behind the summer-house, and listened to all their tender discourse. 
She tould the duke all about her property : thrse per cents., ould 
Irish annuities, together with large concarns in the Dutch, Frinch, 
and Inglish funds ; — Do you mind that ? 

Sir Pataick. The devil ! — this must be put a stop to if possible. 
The Duke lives above his income, and will do anything for money, 
and my old stupid sister will discover the error when it's too late. 
However, I'll not be out-generalled if I can help it. Zounds ! I'll 
go and look after them immediately. [Exit Sir Patrick, r., 1 e. 

Katty. Sure, I tickled that old fellow ! Faith, he went off in a 
blaze ! 

Eerder Captain O'Lynn and Florence, c. d. 

O'Lynn. Well, Katty, have you commenced operations ? 

Fhrence. [r ] What have you said to my father ? 

Katty. [c] Bedad, I sent him off in a mighty big flusteration ; but, 
tell me, have you been speaking wid the Duke, yet ? 

Florence. No ; I saw him in the garden, but my courage failed 
me ! 

O'Lynn. [l.] I had better mention the affair to his lordship my- 
self. 

KaUy. And spoil all my iligant contrivances ? Ketire, Captain ; 
if you don't, I'll resign my commission. 

Florence. Be ruled by Katty, Charles ; remember she once saved 
my father from being plundered in Italy. 

Kaity. Faith, I did that same, Florence, darling, and faith, I'd do 
that same again, but I want you two to trust to me, and I'll play a 
game that will set you all right, and t' others all wrong ? Will you 
doit? 

O'Lynn. Yes, yes ! whatever you say, Katty. 

Kaity. Then you be off, Captain, and wait until I send for you, 

O'Lynn. But, Katty — 

Katty. Be out Of tliis ; if you don't, I'll be after shooting you wid 
a wooden skewer. 

0' Lynn. Well, I suppose I must go forward with the siege, Katty ; 
but bring me into action as soon as possible. [Exit O'Lynn, l.. 1 e. 

Katty. Now, Florence, darlint, you remain here, and I'll go in the 
garden, and send the old Duke. Then do you tell him you're mar- 
ried, and you can't help it, and that the Count St. Lorme, his nephew, 
is making love to you, and he must help that. Speak right out, 
Florence, darlint, for love's the devil, anyhow. Screw your courage 
to the sticking-plaster, and remember, there is no such word as fail ! 

[Exit, c. D. 

Florence. Fortune, thou fickle genius, I now crave thy aid, and as- 
sist me out of this quandary. Love has triumphed over duty ; 
and, as Katty says, I'm in a most elegant fix ; — should my father 
and aunt prove cruel, and hand me and my gallant Captain our 
walking papers to new quarters. 



16 KATTY O'SHEAL. 



Enter Duke St. Lorme, c. d. 



Duke. [Boicing.] Mademoiselle, you wish to speak with me ? 

Florence. [A&vde.'] I'm all confusion. [Aloud.'] I have a favor to ask, 
my lord. 

Dvke. To be honored with your commands is io me an inexpres- 
sible pleasure. 

Florence. If your lordship could indulge me, I — I — [Aside and con- 
fused.'] I am really at a loss what to say. 

Duke. [Aside.] The girl's confused. Ah, here's something in the 
wind ! 

Florence, (r.) [Cmifused.] I beg your pardon, my lord, I — I — 

Duke, [l.] My dear Mademoiselle, indeed I shall be most happy to 
receive your commands ; and the satisfaction of confirming with my 
tongue what my eyes, perhaps, have too weakly expressed ; that I am 
your very humble servant. 

Florence. Believe me, I feel greatly honored by your condescension, 
my lord, but it distresses me to say that I am ol3liged, in my pres- 
ent situation, to apply to you for protection. 

Duke. Really, Mademoiselle, I am happy in your distresses, be- 
cause it gives me an opportunity to show my zeal. Beauty, to me, 
is a religion in which I would die a martyr. [Aside.] She's an inter- 
esting girl, by jove ! 

Katty. [Peeping in c. D.] [Aside.] Just listen to the ould rhinoceros ! 

Florence. Affection, duty, hope, despair, and other thoughts I am 
struggling with. Even the presence of your lordship adds to my 
perplexity. 

Duke. Venus forbid ! [Aside.] The devil's in me for perplexiug 
the ladies. [Smiling.] Take courage, Mademoiselle, you have a 
powerful advocate in my breast ; I am attached to you by all the 
laws of sympathy and delicacy. [Katty, peeping in c] 

Florence. You are not aware, my lord, your nephew, by the most 
misplaced and ill-timed declaration of affection for me, has given 
me great annoyance. 

Duke. Monstrous ! — declaration of love to you ! 

Florence. Yes, my lord. But it is needless to say that my affec- 
tion for my sister, and duty to my family, and the great respec 1 1 
entertain for your lordship, have made me exceedingly unhappy. 

Duke. Sweet girl ! Proceed, Mademoiselle 1 

Katty. [Peeping inc. d.] She's walking into the ould duck's affec- 
tions ! Gro it, my beauty. 

Fhyrence. What I have to disclose, my lord — my secret — I dread 
should it meet with your displeasure. 

Duke. Impossible !— speak, I beseech you ! 

Florence. Pardon my confusion — I am devoted to another. 

Duke. [Adde.] It's plain enough she loves me. [Aloud.] By the 
love of beauty, command my heart, for 'tis wholly yours. 

[Kneeling, and kissing her hand. 

Katty. [Peeping in c. n.] What's the old devilskin doing? 

Fhren,ce. [Alarmed ] My lo)-d ! my loi'd ! 



K.\TTT O'SHEAL. 17 

Duke. Speak but your wishes, and enjoy them, amiable creature ; 
here at your feet I swear fidelity ! 

Enter Sir Patrick, k. n., 1 e. 

Sir Patrick. [Starting.] The devil ! 
Florence [Disengaging herself.'] My father ! 

Enter Lady O'iSTeil, l., 1 e. 

Lady 0' Kcil. Amazement! I am really shocked! 
Katty. [Ptejnng out c. D.] Amusement for the million. 

Florekce hurries off through door r., 3 e. ; Duke hurri^a off through door 
L., o E.. and Katty disappears at hack. 

Sir Patrick. Well, things are coming to a pretty pass, I must say ! 

Lady 0' Neil. Yes. brother ; and you ought to be ashamed of your- 
self fur such monstrous conduct ! 

Sir Patrick. Confound it, madam, can I be responsible for amorous 
old fops, and old women, together with giddy young girls, who 
don't know their own minds. 

. L.idy 0' Ned. Brother, your behavior and proceedings are infa- 
mous. You have no concern for tlu honor of our family. 

Sir Patrick. My proceedings ! 

Lady 0' Neil. Its abominable ! Can't that wise head of yours 
foresee the cunsequences ? 

Sir Patrick. Well, madam, you have had all your own way in this 
affair. 

Lady 0' Neil, [l.] And all would have been arranged satisfactorily, 
and to the honor of our family, had you not consented to the 
Count's scandalous proposals. 

Sir Patrick, [r.] Zounds ! madam, it was yourself that sanctioned 
his request with regard to exchanging Cordelia for Florence ; — a cir- 
cumstance I should never have thought of. But you cannot deceive 
me. I knov/ you wish to quarrel with me, and I am acquainted 
with the reason why. 

Lady 0' Neil. Brother ! brother ! you will compel me to speak in a 
momi^nt ! 

Sir Patrick. Say on, madam ; I am acquainted with your billing 
and cooing, and kissing the humorous old Duke in the summer- 
house. 

Lady O'Ncil. Have you taken leave of your senses, brother ? 

SirPatiick. No, sister, but my eyes are now open to your in- 
trigues ; and I wish you much joy with the conctdted old fop. 
[Laughing.] Ha-ha-ha ! I'll send a despatch to Ireland forthwith, to 
prepare our friends there with the interesting event. Ha-ha-ha I 
the 0' Neil's and the Baffcrty's will break each other's heads with 
the joyful intelligence. Ha-ha-ha! [Exitij., 1 'e. 

Lady 0' Neil. [Walking ahoui in great passion.] I never was so itjsultfd 
in the whole course of my life. The brute ! to make such insinua- 
tions about me with the Duke ! 



18 " KA-TTY O'SHEAL. 



Enter Cordelia, k., 1 e. 



Cordelia,. My dear aimt ! what is the matter with you? 

Lady 0' Neil. My dear child, that father of your' 8 will cause me to 
end my days in a lunatic asylum. 

Cordelia. My father, aunt ? 

Lady 0' Neil. Yes, he has the audacity to say that I flirt with the 
Duke St. Lorme ! 

Cordelia. You flirt with the Duke, aunt ! — impossible I 

Lady 0' Neil. Ah ! and positively asserts that we contemplate mar- 
rlau:e. 

Cordelia. Good gracious ! he must be crazy ! 

Lady 0' Neil. My dear Cordelia, I'll not suffer it. Go, child, in- 
stantly, and tell your father that I demand an immediate explana- 
tion of his outrageous conduct. 

Cordelia. Yes, dear aunt. [Going. Aside.'] Eeally, everything seems to 
go contrary. [Exit l., 1 e. 

Erder Coukt St:' Lorme, c, d. 

Count St. Lorme. [r.] Your ladyship, I beg, will grant me a few 
moments' conversation ! 

Lady 0' Neil, [l.] To be brief, my lord, I must decline renewing 
the subject you suggested this morning ! 

Count St. Lorme. It has ever been my desire to merit the good 
opinion of your ladyship, and if you will but consider the circum- 
stances, I flatter myself— 

Lady 0' Neil. You do flatter yourseit if you fancy for a moment 
that I can approve of your behavirn- to niy niece. 

Count St. Lorme. I would not offend your ladyship for the world, 
and I hope your discretion and good sense will think it rather a 
point of honor to break engagements which I could not fulfill so 
strictly as I ought. 

Lady O'Neil. Really, Count, I am so perplexed with my own af- 
fairs at the present moment — 

Count St. Lorme. [Kneeling.'] My dear lady, on my knees I implore 
you to listen — 

Re- erder Sir Patrick and Cordelia, l., 1 e. Both start ; — Count rises 
confused. 

Sir PaMck. My dear Count, dont let me interrupt you at your de- 
Totions. Sister, I beg ten thousand pardons. Keally, Cupid seems 
to be hard at work here. Love reigns predominant both in the 

house and out of it ; the infection is certainly contagious. D ^n 

me but I'll have a turn at the tender passion myself with the first 
woman that comes in my way. [Exit c. J>. 

Lady O'Neil. Now, Sir Count, you see what my brother thinks. 

Count. St. Lorme. [Confused.] Really, madam, I regret I-^I — 

Lady O'Neil. Don't talk to me of regrets! Come, Cordelia, I'll 
end this farce at once. [Exit'vntk Cordelia, 0. 

Onint St. Lormt. Confusion I What am 1 to do ? I'll ask my 



KA.rrY O'SHEAL. 19 

uncle, the Duke. His influence will have more weight with the old 
lady, if I can prevail upon him to lend me his assistance. 

Enter Cattain O'Ltnn, l., 1 e. 

0' Lynn. Well met, my friend ; I have something of the greatest 
inipurtance to communicate. 

Ci/unt St Lorme. You have, no doubt, heard of my interview with 
La<iy O'Neil, respecting Florence? 

0' Lynn. Yes ; and it is on that account I must disclose a secret in 
which 1 am t^eriously involved, and likewise to prevent you pursuing 
an object that must end in failure. 

Cou.d St. Lcrme. You allude to the opposition of the family ? 

0' Lynn We may be interrupted here. Come with me to the gar- 
den, and there I will unbosom myself, and explain all to you. 

Count Si, Lcrme. [Crosses to r.] I an) with you, Captain. But all you 
can say or do, cannot alter my determination. If the family will 
per.sist in thwarting my honorable intentions, I'll run away with the 
girl, or I'm no Frenchman. 

O'Lynn. Your lordship will never accomplish that 

Count St. Lorme. We shall see ! we shall see ! 

[Exit with Captain O'Ltkn, k. 1 e. 

Enter Duke St. Lorme, l. 3 e. 

Duke. It was really unfortunate to be interrupted in the most critical 
moment that ever love and beauty honored me with, — a declaration 
of love from the lips of beauty. Florence is, indeed, an angel. How 
blind I have been to the desolation I have made ? Yet how could I 
possibly imagine that a little partial attention and tender civilities 
should win her affections. No matter, the murder's out, and I'll 
sacrifice the whole sex for her sake. 

Enter Kattt, c. 

Katty. [r. c] Is yer honor all alone? 

Duke, [l ] No. my little sweet-briar. I was never in such exquisite 
company since my heart first conceiv^ed or ray senses tasted pleasure. 

Kdiy. Sure, you're indulged wid invisible companions. Sure, a 
blind man couldn't see any one here but yourself. 

Duke. Delightful imaginations, Katty. My own idea's a delirium 
of ecstacy. 

K-Uy. I understand ; it's a conflaberation of wit, wine, sweet cider 
and good ould Iiish whiskey punch. 

Duke. Mortal shadows cf felicity ! 

Klitty. Like castles in the air, — never to be realized. [Aside.l I'll 
tickle this ould fellow ! [Aloud ] Sure, it's mighty glad I am to see 
you so happy. 

Duke. You shall partake of it, my dear. My felicity shall not be 
confined to myself alone, but shall spreiid its influence to the whole 
circle of friends. Yuu, Katty, are a confidant of M'lle. Florence's, 
who hasj no doubt, informed you of— 



20 KATTY O'SIIEAL. 

Eatty. Don't be afther speaking a word . Sxire, she's reached the 
stiurcuse of her wishes, and you pardon her folly ? 

Duke. Yes ; how could she help it ? And I confess that I am de- 
vot'vi to her. 

KiiUy. Sure, your kindness distracts me. 

J)uke. Wliich was positively the case with Mademoiselle Florence. 

Kaiiy. She trembled to disclose the sacret. 

IJuke. Yes, Katty, it was a moment of bliss ; and as I never do 
iliiijgs by halves, I have resolved to plunge into matrimony. 

Katty. Who could look at that inspiring tigure, widout being struck 
al! of a lump, like mud in a gutter ! 

Bake. [A:ide'\ Another conquest, by the gods! 

Kait]/. Och, hone ! my poor heart. [AttempU to fall in his arms. He 
avoids her | 

Duke. Why, what's the matter, Katty ? you appear faint. 

Kat'y. Och, hone ! och, hone ! I'm kilt intircly ! 

Duke. Dear me ! what is it ails you ? 

Kdliy. Och, hone ! och, hone ! 

Duke. [Aside.^ Poor creature, this is distressing. \Aloud.'] But.my 
dear Katty, you must consider our stations ! 

Kcttty. I do, and it's that's what's killing meintirely ! \Trie!> to fall 
into Duke's arms.] Oh, mercy for the girls, but never mind the gintie- 
rnen ! [Pretends to faint.] 

Duke. By heavens! 1 feel quite alarmed ; she's certainly crazy, and 
may bite me ; I'll run and call some assi.stauce. [Going. 

Kat'y. Oh, don't ! don't he afther leaving me. Sure, the wild tor- 
tured cat, that flies across the mountain, loves, and why not — why 
not Katty O'Sheal ? 

Duke. My dear, good young i. > compose yourself and I'll be 
your friend. 

Katty. Who could look at that beautiful face, that chiselled fore- 
head, those sparkling eyes ? Och, hone ! that beautiful mouth. Och, 
lioae ! och, hone ! [Aside.] Bedad, it's all over his face ! [Aloud.] 
Och, hone ! och, hone ! And your delicate white hands ! [Aside.] 
They're just as yellow as a duck's foot! [Aloud.] Och, hone! och, 
iipne ! I'm kilt intirely ; 1 can stand it no longer ! Latch me, your 
honor ! I am going to faint. [Falls into Duke's arms.] The poor, broken- 
hearted Katty O'Sheal ! Ho-ho-ho ! 

Duke. [Holding her.] Bless me ! what shall I do ; — she's really so 
heavy I cannot carry her to a chair. Katty ! Katty ! arouse your- 
self. My rheumatics has taken all my strength away. I'll give a 
thousand pounds for a chair to sit her upon — I certainly shall let 
her fall. 

Untei' Sir Patrick, c. ; — starts en seeing Duke. 

Sir Patrick, [n.] Well, I declare, your lordship is in a yerj interest- 
ing situation. 

Duke. My dear Sir Patrick, the girl has swooned ; pray take hold 

of her, for my strength is <',ntirfc;y gone. 
Sir Fatri:k. I beg pardrin f n- iii;r idiug ! 



KATTY O'SHEAL. 21 

JDuke. D— n it, sir, assist me, or I shall drop her. 

Sir Fairick. Well, I mu^t not have her injured, [Takes her.'] But 
rememher, sir, if you have insulted Katty, I shall demand satisfac- 
tion. 

Duke. I pledge you my honor that I have not ; I will seek one of 
the servants to procure her a glass of water, and when recovered, 
bhe will vouch for me, I am certain. [Exit r., 1 e. 

Sir Patrick. This is strange ;^Katty is not one of the fainting 
kind. [As he is carrying her to a chair, Lady O'Neil enters c. D. 

Lady 0' Neil. [Stirling.] Can it be possible ! Ah ! ah ! my vir- 
tuous brotiier, this is very pretty, indeed ! Now, sir, I will be even 
with you, and I'll inform everybody, as you did about the Count. 

[Runs off c. 

Sir Patrick. Zounds! woman, lam innocent of anything wrong. 
[Places Katty in cliair. D — n that stupid old Duke, he is getting 
everybody into trouble in the house. I must stop my sister's mouth, 
if possible ! [Runs off c. d. 

Katty. [Jumps up, and laughs heartily.'] Redad, didn't I know it only 
wanted a tight to cap the climax ! [Pistols.'] What's that? It sounded 
very much like a young gun exploding. Faith, I'll run and see fair- 
play, anyhow. [Runs off, r. 1 e. 

Enter Sir Patrick and Lady O'IsTeil, c. d. 

Lady 0' Neil. I say that you are to blame, brother, 
Sir Patrick. I deny it, sister. From the moment the Duke and 
his nephew entered the place, there has been nothing but un- 
pleasantness ; no doubt, the report of fire-arms is some of their mis- 
chief in the garden. 

Enter Cordelia, hastily, r. , 1 e. 

Cordelia. The Count St. Lorme and Captain O'Lynn have fought a 
duel in the garden. 

Sir Patrick and Lady O'Neil. A duel ? 

Cordelia. Yes, sir ; and the Count is wounded. They are bringing 
him iuto the house. 

Duke. [Without.] This w^ay — this way. Be careful. 

^nter Duke, supporting the Count St. Lorme, ivith his arm hound up, and 

in a sling. Enter Captain O'Lynn, r. , 1 e. At the same time, Florence 

enters, from d. , r. 3 E. 

Sir Patrick, [l. c ] Captain O'Lynn, will you favor me with the 
cause of this quarrel, and why you took the liberty of using my 
garden for your duelling-ground ? 

Coun' St. Lorme. Sir Patrick, I alone am to blame in this affair. I 
compelled Captain O'Lynn to fight. I insulted him as a man of 
honor, by disbelieving his word. 

Duke. To be candid in the matter, there has been a confounded 
mistake here altogether. Captain O'Lynn and Florence are husband 
and wife 

Jyidy 0' Ndl and Cordelia. M:!rricd ! 



22 KATTY O'SHEAL, 

Sir Fairiclc. Is this so, Captain O'Lynn ? 

0' Lynn. It is the truth, sir. 

Lady 0' Neil. I am thunderstruck ! positively shocked ! Brother, 
they shall both leave this house immediately, or I will. 

Sir Painck. Well, you must do as you please — use your own dis- 
cretion, sister, whether you remain or go. Florence is my daughter, 
and this is her first fault, and I should ill deserve the name of fa- 
ther to crush her young heart by driving her and the man of her 
choice and affections from my door. 

Katty enters, running from k,., 1 e. 

Katty. Sure, Sir Patrick, didn't I tell you "I'll follow you all over 
the world ?" and, bedad, will I, afther that ? 

Buke. \To Katty.] I'm inclined to think that you were in posses- 
sion of this secret. 

Katty. Sure I was, and I had the sinse to keep the sacret to my- 
self, too ; but sure, now, your ladyship will forget and forgive. 

Lady O'lidl. No ; I can never pardon such indiscretion. 

Katty. Remember, it is Katty O'Sheal pleads for the darlints. 

Duke. And I second the motion. Come, come, Lady O'Neil, fol- 
low your brother's bright example ; forgiveness is a boon we all 
hope for from heaven. I have influence at court, and will exert it 
for the benefit of Captain O'Lynn. 

Katty. Faith I know that she will. Don't I see the milk of human 
kindness spreading all over her face. She says, " Florence, if you 
will be a good girl for the future, she'll make a man of ye !" 

Lady O'Neil. Well, what is done cannot be undone, so I forgive 
them. 

Katty. Thfn my work's accomplished. Success has crowned my 
aim ; now, then, I^ve nothing more to gain. Yet, hold ! one word 
I forgot to say. [To Audience.'] Ladies and gentlemen, how like you 
the play ? Speak from your hearts :— do you think I acted right ? 
I'm glad you're pleased, and hope to see you all again to-morrow 
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